A platform game (or platformer) is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles.
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Stationary turret that tracks the player when in sight [closed]
Hello i am doing a project for school i am new to c# and need some help with a turret i am creating a simple 2d game and i want my turret sprite to rotate and track my player when he is in view and ...
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SDL - Sprite “Ghosting”
I'm using SDL to create a 2D side-scrolling platformer, but I'm getting ghosting from the sprite. I'm not used to programming with graphics or SDL so excuse any stupid remarks I make.
Here's the ...
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How to do 2D Raycasting on a slope
I have a 2d platformer game where my slope can be set at any angle, so I've setup a middle raycast that points to the ground onto the player to handle the collision. This works perfectly fine on a ...
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Putting a 2d camera into a gamestatemanagement sample [closed]
Hello everyone i am new to xna and i am trying to implement a simple 2d camera that follows my sprite around the level i am using a gamestatemanagement so i have the basic platformer with screen ...
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Creating an update “Tick” on tiles for simulating growth of plants
In my 2D tile based platformer I have added plants to be able to farm such as the simplest, grass, to other things like corn. Now each of these speacial tiles must be updated to show how much it has ...
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camera2d class will not work [closed]
using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;
using ...
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UML Class Diagrams for 2D platformer Games? [closed]
I have to develop a small arcade game in C++ for a college assignment using a 2D Game Engine my teacher coded. What would be the best way to make a UML class diagram for it? It's very basic stuff but ...
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Developing a simple platformer [closed]
I'm in uni and for coursework we're developing a simple platform game in C# using XNA. I've been looking forwards to starting this all year.
Does anyone have any advice on the best books to pick up ...
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Should my platformer have collectibles? [closed]
By collectibles, I mean objects that you collect mainly for the sake of collecting them, not to power up. Think coins in Super Mario or bandages in Super Meat Boy.
I've seen a few platformers that do ...
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Pixel perfect collisions for platforms
i'm trying to do a pixel perfect collision but i don't know how to handle collisions when there is a jump . Here i have one image of a sample map:
But maybe I've done a bad supposing all pixel like ...
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Implementing tile-based movement on 2D platformer
I'm trying to make a cinematic platformer, in the veins of the first two Oddworld games, Flashback, Prince of Persia, Blackthorne and so on. This article describes very well how this kind of movement ...
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'perfect' platformer base Xna
When a player touches a ground peice in a game, he seems to sink through the ground then slowly rise back up, and when he has risen back up, he is very jittery.
if (touchingTheGround())
{
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Making The Player Stop Bouncing And Stop Sinking In The Ground In A Platformer XNA
Heres a problem i've been having. I have a platformer, and whenever my player hits the ground he keeps bounding. Here's the falling code
iceBoy.moveY++;
iceBoy.position.Y += moveY;
Now heres the ...
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Create Random Platformer-Gameworld
Evening.
I created a xna-game like the iOS Platformer game "Banana Kong".
The level-layers are currently saved as XML files.
Example:
<level>
<layer1>
<tile type="0" ...
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How to make AABB collisions work? [closed]
I am unable to make efficient AABB collision in XNA 4. I am making a platformer, with tile based map.
Here is what I do in my tile class :
public virtual void Update(GameTime gameTime, ...
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Non-physics character movement in a Box2d Environment
I am in the process of creating a physics platformer. However, I want the player movement to feel very old-school(as in: non-physics like), which means that the character:
Should always move equally ...
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An “AABB Physics Engine” [closed]
I've been working on the physics for my 2D game and for the past two weeks it's been doing my head in. I wanted something a little more complicated than what you see in 2D platformers, but I wanted to ...
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Stopping on a slope in Box2d
I am creating a simple platformer using Box2d. I've implemented a variant of the technique described here.
To make the player character move more 'platformer-like' I want him to stop on (shallow) ...
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How could you create climbing movement in a 2D platformer?
Basically what I want to do is have a playable character that is able to "walk" on an organic surface at any angle, including sideways and upside-down. By "organic" I mean I want my levels to have ...
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How do I make camera follow the player within some bounds?
I am creating a simple ambient/explorer platformer. Because I want the player to only be able to see a new area once they have reached it, I decided to split up the world in rooms.
To not make things ...
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How to handle sprite speed when objects move using Box2d?
I have a basic platformer using Box2d that works great. However, I now want to stop using my default square, and implement some running and jumping animations.
How can I ensure that:
When running, ...
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How to make a character in a Box2D world jump faster?
I have a question about using Box2D to simulate a physics-platformer.
I manage to make the character move to the right and left, and jumping as well. However, jumping seems extremely slow when ...
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Flixel level ceases to show on screen
I was following along with the EZPlatformer flixel tutorial(with some of my own modifications), and suddenly find that my level is not appearing on screen. I am unable to detect any changes I could ...
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Why is my collision resolution failing on the corners?
I'm tearing my hair out trying to work out how to handle my collision resolution at the corners of the rectangles that I'm colliding with.
The code that I'm working with is:
class Player(object):
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“Super meatboy”-ish replay
I'm making a platformer built from mini-levels - and I want to create a sort of a replay of all the player tries that the player did for the level.
My question is - what is the best way to record the ...
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Impulsioned jumping
There's one thing that has been puzzling me, and that is how to implement a 'faux-impulsed' jump in a platformer. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then think of the jumps of Mario, Kirby, and ...
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Managing shots of the player [closed]
I'm currently developing a 2D Jump'n'Run and the situation is the following: The player has different weapons he can collect and is then able to shoot the weapon's projectiles (laser, rockets, ...
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Tile-based maps in AS3
I want to make a tile-based platformer in AS3.
I want my game to read an external maps file (in xml or json or somethimg similar) to draw a tile-based map.
I've seen loads of tutorials for this in ...
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Storing large array of tiles, but allowing easy access to data
I've been thinking about this for a while. I have a 2D tile bases platformer in XNA with a large array of tile data, I've been running into memory problems with large maps. (I will add chunks soon!)
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Game Physics: Implementing Normal Reaction from ground correctly
I am implementing a simple side scrolling platform game. I am using the following strategy while coding the physics:
Gravity constantly acts on the character.
When the character is touching the ...
